European Anti Poverty Network

Social Platform (The Platform of European Social NGOs)
Civil Society Europe (CSE)

EAPN Austria
EAPN Belgium - Réseau belge de lutte contre la pauvreté - Belgisch(1),
EAPN Bulgaria - Bulgarian Anti Poverty Network(1),
EAPN Cyprus - National Anti-Poverty Network Cyprus(1),
EAPN Croatia
EAPN Estonia
EAPN Finland - EAPN-Fin(1),
EAPN France(1),
EAPN Germany - Nationale Armutskonfrenz Deutschland(1),
EAPN Greece - Ελληνικό Δίκτυο για την Καταπολέμηση της Φτώχειας(1),
EAPN Hungary - Hungarian Anti Poverty Network (HAPN)(1),
EAPN Iceland
EAPN Ireland(1),
EAPN Italy – CILAP(1),
EAPN Latvia
EAPN Lithunia – Lithunian National Anti Poverty Network(1),
EAPN Luxembourg - EAPN Lëtzebuerg(1),
EAPN Malta(1),
North Macedonian EAPN
EAPN Netherlands – EAPN Nederland(1),
EAPN Norway – Velferdsalliansen(1),
EAPN Portugal Rede Europeia Anti Pobreza / Portugal – REAPN(1),
EAPN Romania - RENASIS(1),
EAPN Serbia
EAPN Slovakia – Slovak Anti Poverty Netrwork(1),
EAPN Slovenia
EAPN Spain - EAPN-España(1),
EAPN Sweden - EAPN Sverige(1),
ATD Fourth World(1),
Caritas Europa(1),
EMMAÜS Europe(1),
Eurochild(1),
EURODIACONIA(1),
European Federation of Food Banks(1),
European Network against Racism (ENAR)(1),
European Older People's Platform (AGE)(1),
Mental Health Social Exclusion Europa (SMES Europa)(1),
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM(1),
Salvation Army(1),
European Consumer Debt Network(1),

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Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

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The Publications listed below give a clear indication of the areas we work on. It also shows our communication activities and the event s we organised were linked to the main publications.

Getting Results on Poverty and the Social Pillar? | EAPN Response to the Annual Growth Survey Package 2018 (January 11, 2018)

Social Rights or Social Plight? | EAPN Assessment of the 2017 National Reform Programmes (September 27, 2017)

Make Social Rights the beating heart of Europe! | EAPN position on the European Pillar of Social Rights
(September 11, 2017)

Key messages from EAPN’s 2017 conference: Learning from the past to beyond 2020 – What EU strategy to fight poverty, social exclusion & inequality? (August 9, 2017)

More Social Europe in the European Semester? | EAPN Assessment of the 2017 Country-Specific Recommendations (June 9, 2017)

Making progress on Social Europe? Poverty reduction, social rights and standards | EAPN Assessment of the Country Reports and Proposals for Country- Specific Recommendations 2017 (May 2017)

Nobody left behind | EAPN Booklet on Services (Jan 2017)

Inclusive Labour Markets – Building pathway approaches to quality employment (Jan 2017)

EAPN’s Analysis of the 2017 Annual Growth Survey & Joint Employment Report | Delivering on the Promises of a better Social Europe? (Dec 2016)

Energy Poverty Handbook, co-authored with MEP Tamas Meszerics (Greens, Hungary), Building Performance Institute Europe, & Housing Europe (Nov 2016)

EAPN Assessment of the National Reform Programmes 2016 – What Progress on Social Europe? (Oct 2016)

EAPN Position Paper on the European Pillar of Social Rights – Last Chance for Social Europe? (Sept 2016)

EAPN Assessment of the Country Reports and Proposals for Country-Specific Recommendations 2016. (Apr 2016)

Barometer Report: Monitoring the implementation of the 20% of the European Social Fund that should be devoted to fight against poverty 2014-2020. (Mar 2016)

EAPN Booklet on social innovation (Mar 2016)

EAPN Response to the Annual Growth Survey & Joint Employment Report (Dec 2015)

EAPN Letter to December EPSCO Council on the Social Triple A and long-term unemployment (Dec 2015)

EAPN Letter to President Juncker with response to Annual Growth Survey & Joint Employment Report (Dec 2015)

EAPN’s October’s Policy conference report – Can the semester deliver on poverty and participation? (Dec 2015)

EAPN Assessment of the National Reform Programmes 2015 (Oct 2015)

EU Semester Alliance: Letter to European Commission President Juncker upon adoption of the 2015 Country-Specific Recommendations (Sept 2015)

EAPN briefing on Juncker's EU Investment Plan and the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) (July 2015)

EAPN full assessment of the European Commission's Country-Specific Recommendations 2015 (June 2015)

EAPN Letter to the EPSCO Council & Employment Council (June 2015)

EAPN contribution to EC Consultation on long-term unemployment (May 2015)

EAPN Proposals on the new Commission's Integrated Guidelines (April 2015)

EAPN report Making Progress on Europe 2020: Investing in people for a fairer EU.

EAPN's 2015 Assessment on Country-Specific Recommendations. (April 2015) and country fiches

EAPN Toolkit on Engaging with Europe 2020 & the European Semester (Mar 2015)

EAPN Letter to the EPSCO Council (Mar 2015)

Drivers project | Report on income and social protection for the EU Drivers Project: Synthesis of case-study evidence compiled by European Anti-Poverty Network (2015). The publication also includes an EAPN Toolkit on how to develop focus groups (Annex 2 - Page 31)

EAPN Structural Funds Good-Practice Handbook - Delivering Social Inclusion Through Structural Funds (Feb 2015)

European Minimum Income Network (coordinated by EAPN) PUBLICATIONS
Available on www.emin-eu.net
EMIN Synthesis Report – Road Map (2014)
EMIN summary report (2014)
EMIN Evaluation Report (2015)

On behalf of EAPN the people listed below have had during the reporting period four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU Institutions with the objective of influencing the policy making and decision making process of the European Union institutions, or they have spent 20% or more of their working time on behalf of EAPN carrying out such activities. The information given also indicates the area of EU policies on which we tried to have influence:
Leo Wiliams
• Meeting between representatives of DG Employment and Social Affairs and EU Funded Networks
• Meeting representatives of DG Employment and Social Affairs from the Social Inclusion Unit for the organisation of the Poeple Experincing Poverty Meeting
Magda Tancau
• Follow up of Europe 2020, Active Inclusion Recommendation
• The implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy and the Platform against Poverty
• The use of EU Technical Assistance money under Structural Funds
• The proposal for an article 13 EU Anti Discrimination Directive
• The Active Inclusion Recommendations and in particular the adequacy of minimum income schemes

Sian Jones
• Follow up on EU Inclusion Strategy (Social Open Method of Coordination)
• Active Inclusion Consultations, Communication and Recommendation.
• Follow up on the EU 2020 Strategy
• European Employment Strategy and Integrated Guidelines
• The Energy Package, particularly the Regulation of the Internal Market on Electricity/Gas
• The Energy Charter and Energy Declaration (Parliamentary)
• Services Directive and Communication on Services of General Interest

Mathias Maucher
• The European Employment Strategy : Including debate on Flexicurity, Active Labour Market Policies, work of the Employment Committee, Mutual Leaning Programme, role of Social Economy.
• The Active inclusion strategy (OMC for Social Inclusion and Social Protection)
• Adequacy of Minimum Income schemes in Europe
Please note that EAPN relies heavily n its members to engage and support it’s lobbying activities. Therefore in addition to the above many of our members assist this work. Therefore we have asked our members to register separately to this register.

Maria Magdalena Tancau
• Meeting representatives of DG Employment and Social Affairs from the Social Inclusion Unit for the organisation of the People Experiencing Poverty Meeting

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The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

• Date	04 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Conference on the Future of Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  Portfolio	Democracy and Demography
  Attending	Ivo Belet (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	European Commissions’s actions against poverty, European Semester, integrating Sustainable Development Goals, European Pillar of Social Rights, European Commission’s initiative for fair minimum wage
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	An Economy that Works for People
  Attending	Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President) Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Implementation of the action plan of the Social pilar, poverty
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit
  Portfolio	Jobs and Social Rights
  Attending	Ana Carla Pereira (Cabinet member)

• Date	29 Jan 2019	Location	EP
  Subject	The Reality Of Poverty And Social Exclusion In The EU
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	06 Sep 2018	Location	BERL
  Subject	EAPN Assessment of 2018 CSRs and Country Annex: More audacity to fight poverty and promote social rights
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	06 Sep 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EAPN assessment of Country-Specific Recommendations 2018
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member)

• Date	05 Sep 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Situation et priorités sociales en Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless

• Date	24 Apr 2018	Location	EP esplanade
  Subject	Launch of the European Minimum Income Network (EMIN) awareness raising Bus Tour
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)

• Date	20 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Exchange of views on the involvement of civil society and EAPN in the European Semester at EU and national levels; and on implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member) Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President)

• Date	28 Nov 2017	Location	BERL
  Subject	EAPN’s Assessment of the NRPs: Social Rights or Social Plight
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	04 Oct 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Social policy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Inge Bernaerts (Cabinet member) Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Jun 2017	Location	EAPN, Boulevard Bischoffscheim 11, 1000 Brussels
  Subject	Beyond 2020 - What EU strategy to fight poverty?
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Ruth Paserman (Cabinet member)

• Date	13 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Exchange of views on EAPN assesment of EU Semester/CSRs, specifically on poverty and social inclusion
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)

• Date	14 Jun 2016	Location	Brussels, Berlaymont
  Subject	European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Mar 2016	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Discussion with a view to the 1st Annual Convention on Inclusive Growth
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Sep 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Energy Poverty
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
  Portfolio	Energy Union
  Attending	Christian Linder (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Federation of Public Service Unions

• Date	17 Mar 2015	Location	European Commission, Brussels
  Subject	EU macroeconomic governance, streamlining of the European Semester, role of social indicators. Midterm review of Europe 2020 strategy, progress towards headline targets, including poverty reduction target.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
  Portfolio	Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
  Attending	Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President) Raquel Lucas (Cabinet member)

• Date	22 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting to discuss EU policy responses in the field of poverty and social exclusion.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen
  Portfolio	Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility
  Attending	Stefaan Hermans (Cabinet member) Vasiliki Kokkori (Cabinet member)

• Date	21 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Priorités sociales
  Cabinet	Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker
  Portfolio	President
  Attending	Luc Tholoniat (Cabinet member)

• Date	19 Jan 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To present the impact of the Alliances’ work and lessons learnt
  DG	Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  Attending	Michel Servoz (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	Eurochild AISBL